LOS ANGELES — Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anne Tyler has never liked The Taming of the Shrew.

“I have no favorite moments in this play,” she said. “I first read it in college and disliked it intensely, and I can’t say my attitude toward it softened any when I read it again just recently.”

Tyler is getting the chance to reimagine the Shakespeare play: She is writing a novel based on it as part of a project by the publishing house Hogarth to commission novels based on all 37 of the Bard’s plays.

Shakespeare lived and died four centuries ago. His style and his works have since been adapted into mediums that didn’t exist when he was alive — including radio, television and film.

The movie Much Ado About Nothing, released last month, was shot at the Santa Monica home of director Joss Whedon with actors in modern dress.

Ian Doescher recently released a book that retells the Star Wars saga in Shakespearean verse.

Asking novelists to adapt Shakespeare’s oeuvre — with complete artistic freedom — is a tribute to the Bard’s enduring power.

It’s also a chance to move his language into a modern setting: a Julius Caesar set in an African republic, perhaps, or The Tempest set on another planet.

“Shakespeare and his range of work seem to have defined these seminal human experiences, be it war, marriage, friendship, the creative act,” Hogarth Publisher Molly Stern said. “He got to the essence of how we live.”

British writer Jeanette Winterson will adapt The Winter’s Tale for the Hogarth series. The publishing house is finalizing deals with other authors.

“We want to reference the literary world as it exists now,” Stern said.If it can find the right authors for all 37, she said, the house will publish them all.

On social media, lovers of Shakespeare and literature are speculating about which author would be best matched to the plays. Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbo, perhaps, could write a Macbeth. Or maybe Japanese author Haruki Murakami could take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

As for The Taming of the Shrew, it’s a play many readers through the centuries have found troubling and misogynistic. It begins with a feisty Katherine telling one man she will “comb your noddle with a three-legged stool and paint your face and use you like a fool.” But, by the play’s end, she is literally under her husband’s heel.

Tyler doesn’t think “the Shrew” is a good role model.“What can possibly be going on in Katherine’s mind?” she asked in an email interview, “or in Shakespeare’s?”

So why does Tyler — author of The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons, among others — want to write a novel based on the play?

“Since my greatest joy in writing novels has been the deepening understanding of my characters in ways I’d never predicted, it seemed to me that The Taming of the Shrew was the natural choice,” she said.

Perhaps the most successful recent adaptation of Shakespeare into the form of a novel is Jane Smiley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres (1991), which reimagines King Lear on an Iowa farm.

In Shakespeare’s Lear, the elderly king announces his plan to divide his kingdom among his three daughters and their husbands, “to shake all cares and business from our age.”

In A Thousand Acres, the farmer father’s plan to divide his farm among his daughters is announced with Midwestern flatness: “You girls and Ty and Pete and Frank are going to run the show. You’ll each have a third part.”